Barbra Austin

If you want to feel like a lucky human being, choose a random weekday afternoon and install yourself in the tea salon at Jacques Genin.

If carnation pink was your favorite color of the Crayola 64, then Pâtisserie des Rêves may very well be the pastry shop of your dreams.

Confession: I bought this Croissant Ispahan at Pierre Hermé this morning because I thought it was pretty.

One look at La Bergamote’s shiny glazed fruit tarts, tall dark chocolate cakes, glittering pates de fruits, piles of crisp meringue clouds, plump religieuses and golden brioches, and I am transported.